Hi, Folks.
Here izza link to a video of one of those 'other makes' of tractor with a blade and lift arrangement that I have not seen before - looks like it would lift high enough to stop a tree falling on the operator. Does anybody know the manufacturer of this blade? You can start getting a pretty clear look at it around 1.17 into video



Just my 0.02.

I don't know the make Deas, but recall some blades were configured to be able to lift high to stack logs. TD9 91 or 92 series, as I did not notice any switch over from gas. JM

Hi, juiceman.
Thanks for your reply. I was aware of the hi-lift blades for stacking logs but had not thought about that as being one of them. The tractor is in New Zealand and it is a 91 series according to the current owner. It being in New Zealand may be part of why I had not thought of the hi-lift blade aspect before.

Just my 0.02.

Heck, I am amazed they had one of those later IH tractors there. I had to watch the entire video to get an idea of what it was.

Hi live in New Zealand the blade is probably made in the South Island by either C W F Hamilton (the inventor of the jet boat engine0 or Skillings Implements both these Coys made many attachments for farm machinery etc

Hi, juiceman.
International Harvester was pretty active in New Zealand (NZ) way back when. I think they even sold a couple of TD30s to poor, unsuspecting suckers there. One of their top sales people eventually came to Australia in about the early 1970s, i think, and started a reasonably successful contracting business in Queensland - - - using Cat equipment - which is still going to this day.

They were also pretty active in Australia back in the late 140s, '50s and early '60s but their distributors here, ISAS - Industrial Sales And Service, didn't do them any more favors than IH did themselves with their poor-to-non-existant parts and service back-up - 5-year old 'orphans'. Their early smaller crawlers, TD6s and 9s, had a fairly good reputation but their bigger stuff, TD14s and up did NOT - weak back ends, etc., O.K. for steady pull drawbar work but not for heavy dozing. When the TD15s, 20s and 25s came out, especially with the 25B and C but the TD30 shot that right up the fundamental orifice like a duck in flight.

Just my 0.02.